Linda, I have to go to DMV here in St Louis before I can leave (and possibly the post office), so I won’t hit the road til at least 10ish. Then I have to find my friend’s place. get together with her and then, who knows. In short, I don’t know. Sorry :(

Goaltending controversy!! Lightning announcers did a good job illustrating how that was possibly bad rebound control by Lundqvist on the second goal. Usually, when it hits his shoulder, it should drop in front of him.

wee losin this one. no doubt. but i wanna see our top line do somethiong. thats my biggest concern cuz when they were out, cally, duby and aa were kickin as. now they gotta get less minutes to watch gabby n fro do nothing? whens the last time gabby had a shot? in minny? not that cally n duby are all stars but imo our whole top line needs to sit and watch. cannot vstand frolov. hes bringin that 1st line down so much

gabby is no jagr thats for sure, but the guy has to score with his skills. what worries me is he was takin lots of shots in teh edmonton game, but since dumbass ec fell on him, i havent seen him shoot much. gotta be hurtin, just cant see him float around like this for no reason

smirf- yea but do u notice how different we play in front of him and biron? we rely on him wayyy too much. they used to do the same for valley to compensate. hank did all he could man. whattya want? they were bad the whole period. no offense at all and stupid penalties with bad pk’ing. the guy stopped alot of good shots.

Don’t think that was a boarding, don’t think that was goalie interference, don’t think it was a dive. Great goal by Stamkos on a perfect pass though. But Rangers shouldn’t have been in an odd-man situ.

if you’re gonna make jokes about Biron being the #1 goalie at least make them funny. Hank is the #1 goalie and will be for next 6+ years. this team is playing like carcillo and you’re gonna make the franchise player the scapegoat? ye…smart.

before you all start panicking and propose ridiculous trades and blame everyone under the sun remember Tampa Bay is a hell of a lot better than most teams in the league and we dont have the talent to compete with them most nights. just look at the teams we’ve lost to in the last month and look where they are in the standings. TB, COL, BOS, WSH, STL, PHI. All 6 have a better winning % than we do.

It’s not hanks fault. The rangers defense is so soft that they let guys stand in front of hank and do nothing about it. The rangers don’t have a talented team. The lighting have better talented players than the rangers. The rangers need every one of there players to play hard on every shift to have a chance to win. I still think this ranger team is not a playoff team, other teams in the eastern conference have gotten better. The rangers will be fighting for the eight spot once again and probably won’t get in.

This is the worst game of the season by far. No one is playing well tonight, no one. LQ has to take matters into his own hands like Billy Smith did. Yes he will take some penalties and they will give up some goals but he will have established the fact that you will pay if you come into his crease or crash into him. This is so bad that it is amazing to think that the bolts have almost as many goals(5) as the Rangers have shots(7) through two periods!!

They play by the same rules as everyone else. They can’t clear the front of the net without getting penaltys. They should stop giving the puck away so often that would help. Hank might also try to cover up some rebounds.

Lundqvist has been weak controlling rebounds, Staal & Girardi have been hesitant, the forwards can’t make or receive a pass, and they’re all standing around watching. A stinker like the Colorado game, except Stamkos and St. Louis are rubbing it in their faces.

Tampa has a lousy dfense . They run around chasing the puck all over the ice. What we are doing wrong is constantly dumping the puck into their zone and around the boards. When you do that against a team that plays d that way, you are playing right into their hands. They should try and carry the puck more and also hang in to it. They are playing hot potato with it all game long.

Sather has had a different kind of team every year for a decade. Yzerman turned a team around with the same players in one summer. Doesn’t Sather rebuild every single year? Hmmm, what’s the difference?

Imagine that…when you shoot, even at bad angles, you get chances. I know Tampa has probably taken the foot off the gas pedal, but the Rangers have spent too much time playing cute in the offensive zone.

They played a period and really showed they could play with them. They got into penalty trouble, and just plain bad play killed them, for the first two. Boyle and Sauer were good though. Gaborik really hasn’t done much lately. Hank had another rough night at times, he is giving up to many big rebounds lately. He had that problem a while ago, then they worked on it , and he got a lot better. No so tonight. They deserved this loss they earned it.

I would like to see MZA called up from HFD to play LW with Gaby….Frolov has been terrible…We need a skilled guy to play with Gaby…not EC, not Avery! Stepan has been impressive…We need a guy with skill on the left side that can shoot and make plays…

.Hangover the game:
What’s the matter my fellow RRers, euphoria is over? Team is totally exposed to a much better, faster and skilled opponent. So, problems are the same – panicking, out of position defense (what is worrisome – the worse was our “best” shutoff pair – Staal/Girardi and conventionally bad this whole season MDZ). What exactly was Torts plan on so familiar to him team? To shut Stem/St.Louis? I’m not even talking about crease clearing, result – not only goals, but increasingly nervous Hank, which we know could become uncontrolled and unpredictable.(BTW, I don’t blame him for 3 or 4 out of 5).
Full frontal impotence of our offence. Their goals in 3rd mean absolutely nothing – it is really bad when team superstar makes Eminger look like new Bobby Orr coming. Painful non-stop turnovers. Annoying, low-flying, High Activity Imitator – Aves, totally useless even in his yapping and pseudo-fight when it doesn’t matter.
In games like this I really nostalgic for Roszy and Drury.
New tendency this season – next game after embarrassing lost – new win and as a result – next euphoria.

I don’t know, Tampa looked pretty good. Very quick team. I didn’t think we played well at all. Which team is the real Ranger team? The one we saw against Edmonton and Pittsburgh, or the one that played tonight in Tampa Bay and lost to Colorado? I wish I knew. Talk about a bi-polar team. Sheesh!

The rap up should be something like this……: The team Shattenkirked its pants the 1st 2 periods..a real Clutterbuck ,they played like total Carcillio ,seeming like they they didn’t give a Byfuglien. Then they woke up in the 3rd..but it was to late..